Can, Talking Heads, Kinks, Brian Eno, Fela Kuti and Africa 70, Serge Gainsbourg, Devo, Meters, Son House, Beatles, Caetano Veloso, Wire, Kraftwerk, Smokey Robinson, Broadcast, Toots & the Maytals, Link Wray, the Damned, Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk, King Tubby, Leiber and Stoller, The Monks, Velvet Underground, Victor Javier
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Sounds Like
a bunch of punk kids who started listening to Brian Eno, Fela Kuti, and Can.
on an autumn day in 2003, on selman street in atlanta georgia, a group of developers were bulldozing an old house. among broken hair dryers, kitchenware, and musty furniture they found a box containing a reel of magnetic tape. thinking nothing of it, the men discarded it in a pile and continued chewingchewingchewing. night came. an early evening sprinkle painted tree trunks dark with the earthy extract of fallen leaves. four wandering figures (our boys), rambling along after work, began to feel a peculiar sensation as they passed this strange pile. an organic unease. curious, the boys stepped closer (as they were predispositioned to mystery and old tape) and noticed a strange music murmuring from fragments of rotten wood and torn plastic bags. purplegreenblue vapors rose from the shivering heap, and it was crowned with a slim box labeled "for gutenberg's children". they opened it carefully with a stick, and before they could could reach inside to touch the reel it disintegrated in a flash of
.............................................and thus the selmanaires were born.
DISCOGRAPHY: "The Air Salesmen" (full-length album), "Here Come the Selmanaires" (full-length CD) and "Just To Get Yr Love b/w Verdigris Intrigue" (seven-inch single) are available for purchase at www.internationalhits.com.
"Standing in Line at an Elevator" (seven-inch single off of Rob's House Records) is available for purchase at www.robshouserecords.com
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thanks for the add! i see you're playing with the features. they were one of my favorite bands when i lived in nashville. speaking of, if you can make it that far, columbus, ohio is only 6 more hours. think about it. ~ZSFW
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